Nintendo Wii

How To: Install ios249 on the Wii and play backup games

ios249 is a sweet little hack for the Wii that allows you to play backup burned copies of games on your console. Pirated games will work too, although we DO NOT condone piracy. This video will walk you through the whole rather elaborate process of installing it on a hacked Wii with the Homebrew channel. You will need to download a whole mess of free software:

How To: Format an SD card to FAT32 for Wii hacking

Formatting an SD card to FAT32 format, the format that the Nintendo Wii can read, is the very first step that you need to take to hack you Wii. There's a lot of other reasons to do it as well, so even if you don't have a Wii you're trying to hack but want a FAT32 formatted SD card for some other reason, this video should still teach you everything you need to know.

How To: Add apps to the Homebrew channel for Nintendo Wii

For this tutorial to work, you will need the Homebrew channel already loaded onto your Wii, an SD card (preferably one with more than 64 MB of storage) and your chosen homebrew application. Then just follow the steps in this video to load your apps!

How To: Play Wii games from a USB HDD/flash drive easily

Want to play Nintendo Wii games from a USB hard disk or thumb drive? If you have a soft- or hard-modded, you can. You'll need to install [WBFS Manager http://wbfsmanager.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=26808] and download a copy of Wii Flowa. For a detailed, step-by-step overview of the process, watch this gamer's guide.

How To: Play Wii games off SD cards or USB drives

While the Wii may be one the most popular console today, many people may be unfamiliar with all the many uses and features of the system. In this step by step guide, learn how to utilize the SD cards or a USB drive with the Wii (which most people are not completely familiar with). It takes you through the installation process and where the SD card/USB drive will go on both the Wii and a desktop computer. When the process is complete, you won't have to use the disc every time you play the game...

How To: Use the WiiFlow USB Loader with an external hard drive

This is a video teaching how to use the Wiiflow USB loader with an external hard drive. This will allow you to store Nintendo Wii games in an external Desktop hard drive. The narrator shows you his consoles and his hard drives while loading the cover on his Wiiflow. The Wiiflow will let you store all of your Wii games onto a large hard drive, instead of your Nintendo Wii. It allows you to play the games from the USB loader without a game disc. This is a convenient way to play your games witho...

How To: Use Balance Board controls on Shaun White Snowboarding

Learn how to perform the basic moves with the Wii Balance Board TM on Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip! for the Nintendo Wii. This is the basic controls tutorial for playing Shaun White Snowboarding using the Wii Balance Board. This is the same control from the Wii Fit game from Ubisoft.

How To: Reassemble a Nintendo Wii

Fixing your own electronical equipment can be difficult, but save you quite a bit of money. The bad thing is that once you've opened it up, putting it back together again, can be quite a hassle. Once you've opened it up, you're pretty much on your own. So in this tutorial, find out how to reassemble a Nintendo Wii. Good luck and remember that opening your Wii, may have voided your warranty. Enjoy!

How To: Copy Wii games to an external hard drive

In this tutorial, learn how to copy an original Wii game to a USB or an external harddrive without using a computer.

How To: Install a solderless mod chip in a Nintendo Wii

This two-part video tutorial from OzModChips show a detailed instructional on how to install a solderless mod chip in a Nintendo Wii. Solderless Wii modchips are popular for the Wii gaming console. The one installed in this video is specifically the d2pro mod chip.

How To: Obtain all 242 stars in Super Mario Galaxy 2 (World S) for Nintendo Wii

On your mission to collect all 242 stars in Super Mario Galaxy 2 on the Nintendo Wii, this is your last World before moving on to the 120 green stars and bonus stars. World S is the key to get the rest!

How To: Move the disc channel on a homebrew hacked Wii

If you have a Homebrew hacked Wii, chances are you aren't using your disc channel as much as you used to. You can play back ups now, why use discs? This video will show you how to move the disc channel from its hallowed spot at the top-left of your Wii menu to somewhere more commensurate with its reduced importance on you hacked uberWii.

How To: Collect all three Star Coins in New Super Mario Bros Wii World 2-4

Don't you just love / hate those Mario levels that use the elements to add variety to the platforming? World 2-4 in New Super Mario Bros Wii is a classic Mario wind level, and this video will teach you how and where to find and get all of the Star Coins in the level.

How To: Defeat Hot Wings, the final boss in Hot Land on Kirby's Epic Yarn

The final boss battle in Kirby's Epic Yarn is Hot Wings, a bird with giant flaming wings. This video shows you how to gather up all the buttons, which you need in order to defeat Hot Wings and get past the Hot Land level for Kirby's Epic Yarn.

How To: Burn Wii games

In this tutorial, learn how to bypass Nintendo's copyright protection and burn Wii games to share with your friends. This video will show you exactly what you need to know to outsmart the system and copy your games to another disc.

How To: Download and burn Wii games for Mac

mybigleftnut90 teaches you how to burn Wii backup games for Mac. After you get a backup game for the Wii, you need to make sure the DVD you'll be burning it too is DVD-R as these work best. Also make sure that the size of the backup game is not larger than the blank DVD you have. Right click on the image and click on "Open with-Disk utility." In the new program window, you click your image file name and click the button "Burn" at the top. Your speed should be 2x or 4x. Unclick verify burned d...

How To: Connect your Nintendo Wii to a wired network

Wireless can be a pain sometimes with video games on the Internet, with disconnections and signal losses, but why not revert back to a wired connection? This video will explain how to connect your Nintendo Wii to a wired network using Actiontec Powerline Networking technology. This will enable your Nintendo Wii to connect to the Internet to download games, console updates, and other information.

How to Reek fish in Zelda: Twilight Princess

Learn where to go, what to do, and what weird character to speak with to unlock the wonderful world of Reek Fishing! And beware, just like real fishing, it requires time and patience. This is a walkthrough for Nintendo Wii's Zelda: Twilight Princess.

How To: Play Wii ISO's without burning disks (USB Flash Drive)

In this video the author shows how to play Wii ISO's without actually burning them do disks using the USB flash drive. A normal DVD disk's average capacity is 4.7 GB, but a normal Wii Play game takes about only .09 GB space. In a DVD we will be wasting a lot of space when you burn the games to it. Instead of DVD disks if you use a flash drive you can store huge number of games on a single drive and also use the USB drive as an other storage device. In this lengthy video the author shows how t...

How To: Download and play classic games on the Nintendo Wii

This video tutorial will teach you how to use the Nintendo Wii Shop Channel to download and play your favorite console games on your Nintendo Wii. To follow along, you'll need either a WiFi Internet connection or Wii Lan adapter.

How To: Install Wad on to Nintendo Wii for homebrews and hacks

Watch this video to learn how to install Wad on the Nintendo Wii. Wad is a program that allows you to run Wii hacks, homebrew games and emulators.

How To: Add a USB loader to your Nintendo Wii

For this tutorial to work, you will need a Nintendo Wii with the homebrew channel loaded onto it, a USB flash drive and a USB loader homebrew app. Once you have your USB loader downloaded onto a PC, follow this tutorial!

How To: Install Wiiflow with cIOS 249 and 222 / 223

In this video, viewers learn how to install Wiiflow. Viewers will need to install cIOS 249 and 222 / 223. Wiiflow is USB Loader that you can use on a Wii that have modified or hacked. Wiiflow enables you to play your "legal ISO backup" by using any USB storage device like a thumb drive or a more substantial external hard drive. This video demonstrates how to do this in a way that is easy to follow.

How To: Make a Wii sensor bar on a projector without batteries

Alon from ChatterBox Video Game Radio has a projector and a Wii and hates batteries. Why make a wireless sensor bar when you've got power adapters laying around? In this video, Alon explains how to make a Wii sensor bar for a projector without batteries.

How To: Update the Flash player on your Wii so you can watch YouTube videos

If you want to watch Adobe Flash videos (such as YouTube clips) on your Nintendo Wii, you might find some difficulty in updating your Flash player. This video shows you how to properly update the software, both for your Wii in general and Adobe Flash in specific, so that you can watch as much Flash media on your Wii as you care to find! This is very quick - all you really have to do is find the right update in the Shopping section of your Wii.

How To: Use Wiiflow USB Loader

In this tutorial, we learn how to use Wiiflow USB Loader. First, go to the homebrew channel and then click on the wiiflow usb loader. After this, you will see a bunch of games for you to choose from. Browse through these until you see one you like, then select it. You can click the arrows to browse between different games and look at the covers of them. After you find one that you like you can play it right away from your PC. To change your settings, go to the lower left hand corner and chang...

How To: Use a USB keyboard to type on your Wii

One of the few technical advantage the Nintendo Wii has against its high-tech rival the XBox 360 is that it allows users to browse the web on their console. Trying to do so using only a Wiimote, however, is impractical. Did you know that you could use a USB keyboard instead? This video will show you how to connect a USB keyboard to your Wii, making it MUCH easier and more practical to use the Opera web browser available in the Wii Store. Now can surf the web on a giant screen while reclined o...

How To: Play downloaded or backup Wii games

For all you Nintendo Wii fans out there, this tutorial will show you how to softmod your Wii in order to play certain games. Those games are backups or downloaded Wii games that can be made using some tricks with your computer. Note: There is always a danger to damaging your device when trying to mod something, so be careful! Enjoy!

How To: Install virtual console games on your Wii for free

Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to load virtual console games onto your Nintendo Wii. You'll need the Twilight Hack and an SD card for this process. The Twilight hack allows you to run unofficial software through the SD (Secure Digital) card inserted into your Wii. Since the Twilight hack was found through the lastest Zelda game Twilight Princess, the game needs to be loaded every time before you can run any "homebrew" software.

How to Play Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

After two years of anticipation, Link is finally back in the latest installment of the series, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to play the newest Zelda game. This tutorial also covers the new features of this Wii game.

How To: Unlock Ganondorf in Super Smash Bros Brawl

To unlock Ganondorf you must go to classic mode, choose Link or Zelda/Sheik, as many lives and continues and must be hard level or higher. Now beat the Master Hand, and you'll unlock Ganondorf.

How To: Make a Darth Vader Mii

Create a Darth Vader (both masked and unmasked) Mii for the Nintendo Wii using miieditor.com.

How To: Get the weather report and surf the Internet on a Nintendo Wii

Want to know how to use the Dashboard on your Nintendo Wii video game console to do fun things like surf the Internet? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this Wii owners' guide from the folks at Butterscotch can present a complete overview of the process in about four minutes. For more information and detailed instructions, take a look.

How To: Make a Mii that looks exactly like Kenny McCormick

Of course, you're going to have to kill this Mii as soon as you make it. This tutorial shows you how to make a Mii on the Nintendo Wii that looks exactly like Kenny McCormick, the death prone character on South Park.

How To: Install the homebrew channel to your Wii

In this video, we learn how to install the homebrew channel to your Wii. You will need: the Zelda twilight princess game, SD card, homebrew installer, and Wiibrew hack. First, go to Wiibrew and find where it says Twilight Hack underneath "homebrew". Go directly to download and install this on your computer. After this, type in "homebrew" and click the link to find the channel, then download it and save it to your computer. Now, go back to the Wii homebrew page and click where it says the twil...

How To: Use the Wiiflow forwarder channel

In this video, we learn how to use the Wiiflow forwarder channel. First, go to the Wiiflow USB loader on your Wii. After this has loaded, click on the game that you want to use. Once you click this, go to the settings button and click through until you find the defaults for the game. You can use this Wiiflow forwarder channel to play a ton of different games in just seconds. You can view the games using different views, making it easier for you to see what games are available. When you are fi...

How To: Obtain all 242 stars in Super Mario Galaxy 2 (World 1) for Nintendo Wii

If you think you can get all 242 stars in Super Mario Galaxy 2 on your own, you've got another think coming. It's a lot harder than it looks. Sure, getting those first 120 normal stars seem like an easy enough task, but finding all of the remaining 120 green stars is the hard part. But then you have those last 2 that are even tougher.

How To: Use Trucha Bug Restorer to mod / hack your Wii

Trucha Bug Restorer is a powerful piece of homebrew software that you can use on your Wii to make sure that it is formatted properly in order to play burned games and use other hacks. This video will show you how to use it to set up an installation of cIOS on your Wii, which is the program that allows you to play burned backup copies of games.

How To: Back up and burn games for the Nintendo Wii

This video tutorial from noxad presents how to backup and burn games for Nintendo Wii game console.To setup game transfer from computer to your console you'll need any type of SD memory card. In this tutorial it's Lexor 1 GB SD card.Insert SD card into your computer card reader. Autoplay window will open, asking what action you want to perform. Select Open folder to view files.You can open SD card manually from My Computer window. (Start button-Computer).Make sure your SD card has folder name...

How To: Bowl a super power curve in Wii Bowling

Wii Bowling is probably one of the most played video games in the Wii Sports package bundled with the Nintendo Wii. But not everybody can play it well. There's always that one person that throws that humungous curve ball that barrels down the lane and destroys all ten pins with the bowling ball. Well, that could be you, after watching this brief video tutorial on how to bowl a super power curve in Wii Bowling. Try to master this, and if you succeed, you can master the game.